Happy International Day of Friendship! If books were people, these books would be besties.
If you like Once Upon A Time, why not try…
- Beauty by Nancy Ohlin.
- The Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon. Check out the reading group guide.
- Charlie Glass’s Slippers by Holly McQueen. Read an excerpt.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride
McBride’s widely lauded novel is full of fragmented, floating sentences that sometimes feel like only gestures at sentences, like gestures at the things under thoughts, that real, pre-language stuff. It’s hard going at first, but once you let the language wash over you and form a rhythm, the book blossoms into a gorgeous stream of word and thought.
10 Experimental Novels That Are Worth the Effort
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We are getting VERY excited about the release of Eimear McBride's debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, this month! To pass the time, we've put together a list of other spell-binding debut novels.
- Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto: A dark and visceral read from the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective. Need we say more?
- Through the Woods by Emily Carroll: Hauntingly beautiful and creepy, award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll debuts with this collection of 5 beautiful graphic stories. A must-read for all.
- I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes: This astonishing debut thriller has been hailed as the best book of the year by too many to count. With a Goodreads rating of 4.25 rating, we're sure you'll feel the same way too.
- Mating for Life by Marissa Stapley: This well-written, emotionally-charged novel is enchanting from beginning to end as it explores love, marriage, motherhood, independence and family relationships.
- We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas: An incredible vivid and realistic portrait of family life. Epic in scope, heroic in character, masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves heralds the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction.
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner: This list wouldn't be complete without the novel that started it all for Weiner. This book is highly intelligent, with a successful heroine Cannie Shapiro. It's so good that when it ends, it feels like you've lost a friend.
Happy reading! :)
Eimear McBride’s debut tells, with astonishing insight and in riveting detail, the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour, and her harrowing sexual awakening. Available September 9, 2014. Learn more.
Fellow bookworms, be prepared to add some titles to your “to-read” list on Goodreads! Here’s a list of some of our most intriguing fiction coming early next year. We know it’s a little soon, but we just can’t contain our excitement.
- The Deep by Nick Cutter: Nick’s previous title, The Troop, “scared the hell” out of Stephen King. Part horror, part psychological nightmare, this one is sure to have you sleeping with the lights on.
- Blown Red by Susan Philpott: Loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? You’ll love this.
- The Damned by Andrew Pyper: A dark thriller about a survivor of a near-death experience who is haunted by his beautiful, vindictive twin sister. Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn calls Pyper “smart, thrilling, utterly unnerving.”
- The Long Hello by Cathie Borrie: An incredibly touching memoir of a daughter caring for a mother with dementia. A beautiful and inspiring read.
- Neil Flambe and the Bard’s Banquet: Another hilarious masterpiece in the series by one of our favourite authors.
Happy reading!
Our Top 5 Inspirational Memoirs
In celebration of the trade paperback release of A House in the Sky this week, here are some of our favourite inspirational memoirs.
At age 25, Jim Ziolkowski gave up his career in corporate finance to create a non-for-profit organization that turns inner-city youths into community leaders. Can one person make a difference? According to Ziolkowski: absolutely.
When Alexandra Heminsley decided to take up running, she had hopes for a blissful runner’s high and immediate physical transformation—but failed spectacularly. The stories of her first runs turn on its head the common notion that we are all “born to run”—and exposes the truth about starting to run: it can really suck.
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?
The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world.
Amanda's curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into 460 days of captivity. She survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark.
Meet Amanda Lindhout at Wordfest in Calgary! Find out more about the event here.
There's no such thing as a perfect family.
Here are 9 suspenseful reads about dark, family secrets ranked from tame to totally terrifying.
Night Film
Gone Girl
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Book Recommendation :: New Adult
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From tips on how to strengthen your brain’s capacity to research on what your brain looks like when you're in love, we have it all. Check out this brilliant brain reading list.
Sister, Sister! Today we put together a reading list of 7 must-read books about sisters.
Passionate about dance? Get inspired with this great list of dance-related reads.
4 Reasons Why You Need to Read The Troop:
1. It "scared the hell" out of Stephen King.
2. It's old-school horror at its best.
3. It's part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later. Could that combination be any better?
4. Nick Cutter is Canadian!
Do you consider yourself an animal lover? If so, you'll love this fur-friendly reading list.
If you like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, why not try:
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick. Read an excerpt.
Pride, Prejudice and Cheese Grits by Mary Jane Hathaway. Read an excerpt.
An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan. See the reading group guide.
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ROAD TRIP! Check out our list of 12 YA reads about leaving it all behind.
You don't have to be a young adult to enjoy YA novels. Here's a list of teen books you should read no matter what your age.
Sometimes the best cure for a tough day is a sad book. Here are 5 books to read if you need a good cry.